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On Disrupting Yourself

QAspire

I created a series of sketch notes for Tiffani Bova’s “ What’s Next ” podcast where she meets brilliant people to discuss customer experience, growth and innovation. Tiffani Bova is a Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. The 9 Rules of Innovation by Greg Satell. Related Posts at QAspire.

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business Review

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. They had lots of these projects. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention.

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The Three Essential Ingredients of Great Collaborations

Harvard Business Review

innovation, engagement, creativity, and fulfillment. Collaboration of this sort can help an organization innovate — in large measure because it gives direction to people's creative energies — and it can help an organization adapt to changes in the world around it. So it goes with collaboration these days. Sound extreme?

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The Problem with Rewarding Individual Performers

Harvard Business Review

But by 2001, the once-dominant Buckeyes had slipped into mediocrity. Given that group membership is such a deeply rooted part of human nature and organizational success, a central element of leadership is the management of group identities. In short, great leaders are “ e ntrepreneurs of identity.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Principle 7 — Generate High-Velocity Decisions) in the section titled Invention Machine he explains the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 decisions and why understanding the difference is crucial to business growth through invention and innovation.

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For Entrepreneurs, Three Ways to Control Your Destiny and Rekindle Joy

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurs and innovators are supposed to be happily self-directed. Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters.